Coast to coast. City to city. The Big Green is on the road, and we're coming to find the best. - Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) December 8, 2025
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Seeing that graphic was a reminder that the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas used to be crazy for me as I pulled together The Green Line, the newsletter I did for around a decade for the Friends of Dartmouth Football. As part of the newsletter, each year I'd try to make a snazzy graphic showing the recruiting areas for the coaches.
The most anticipated piece of the newsletter, of course, was a look at the incoming recruiting class. I'd cull every online source I could find, grab coach quotes on each player, and fold them into The Green Line, which often ran a full 12 pages.
With The Green Line shut down I haven't done the groundwork I used to do in the early decision class, so I don't have much more to pass along than what has appeared on this daily BGA site over the past six months or so. But I do have something else to offer that you may find interesting.
The winter 2022 edition of The Green Line had capsules on each of the early decision players who will be Dartmouth seniors in 2026. I couldn't find that issue, but was able to locate the spring '23 issue that includes capsules on all of the players who will be seniors next fall. In case you are curious what we knew about them before they ever arrived on campus, click HERE and scroll down.
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And you can be pretty sure anytime I bring up the now defunct The Green Line, I'll take the opportunity to share a few of the covers I designed that I really liked. I'm not a graphic designer but coming up with cover ideas and then producing them was by far my favorite part of doing the newsletter. I'll start with the cover from the 2013 issue that followed a season-ending win over Princeton on snowy Memorial Field.
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And one more recruiting piece, but not about Dartmouth and not about bringing a talented player into the Ivy League. Rather about one leaving the Ivies. The headline:
6,000-yard college football quarterback enters transfer portal; A 6,000-yard quarterback from an Ivy League school is entering the transfer portal.
That quarterback is Harvard's Jayden Craig, who has no more Ivy League eligibility remaining and is looking for a new home for his final year. Find the story HERE.
Green Alert Take: I wish outlets would refer to players like Craig and those from Dartmouth who are moving on as Grad Transfers. Simply saying they are entering the transfer portal makes it sound as if they are leaving because they are unhappy with their school. Virtually all are leaving because they have used up their Ivy League eligibility.
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EXTRA POINT
I had to laugh watching the NBC news last night when Al Roker told the nation a cold front was going to drop the temperature in Burlington, Vt., to one degree. That may well have been the forecast, but Burlington is in the Champlain Valley, a notorious warm spot compared to the rest of us. The temperature at the airport in Burlington hit minus-2 earlier this morning.
Here at our Vermont hillside home the temperature had bottomed out when I came down this morning at a brisk 12.6 degrees below zero. It still has a way to go to reach the 22-below I remember from our days living on the shoulder of Hanover's Moose Mountain, but it's getting there. ;-)
